question: Timespan of number of views?

[agharbeia]

Hallo, What does the number of views cited in the list entries represent? Is it the number of views of the article since its creation? Or the number of views since the article came in this top 100 list? Or another time span?

For example the top 68th article in English Wikipedia at the time of writing this is "Omar Khadr". While its Wikipedia basic statistics page reports 7,320 visits between 2017/06/04 and 2017/07/03, the number cited by "top" is 33.2K views on 2017/07/04 which is its first day on this top list. Also Wikipedia traffic statistics reports ٢٦٣٬٢٢٩ visits between 2015/07/01, the earliest record, and 2017/07/04.

Understanding this should help me with the Arabic translation of the templates' strings I'm working on, and is good to know in general.

[mahmoud]

Hello @agharbeia! The data is daily (24 hours, fetched around 1am UTC generally, as that's when the data becomes available), and uses this API.

Looking forward to the Arabic translation.

[agharbeia]

I had seen it, but I still cannot figure out what the numbers mean.

[slaporte]

On the Omar Khadr example, you can look up an individual article's pageviews for one day (24 hours based on UTC midnight) with this API. The page had 33,153 views on 2017/07/04, which is rounded and abbreviated to 33.2K on the Top 100 list. There may be some slight differences with the numbers in other tools, since we show only "user" pageviews, not including some bots or spiders (according to this Wikipedia pageview API). Hope that makes sense!

I'm also looking forward to the Arabic translation.

[agharbeia]

So it is not accumulative during its existence in the top 100 list. I see. It makes a slight difference in how to phrase that tweet with the least possible number of words and least possible ambiguity.

[slaporte]

@agharbeia that's right.